354 - Transactions of tlie Soeietj/. 



(Bostafinski'a Synonyms.) 



Claihroides pyriforme, Hall., t. 1, f. 5 (1742). 



Trichia, Hall, t. 48, f. 5, No. 2167 (1798). 



Lyeoi:)erdon vesjparium, Batsch, t. 30, f. 172 (1786). 



Stemonitis cinnabarina, Eoth, Fl. Germ. 347 (1788). 



Lycoperdon favaceum, Sclir,, Fl. Bav., ii. 667 (1789). 



Trichia pyriformis, HofFm., V. Cr., t. 1, f. 1 (1790), 



Stemonitis fasciculata, Pers, in Grmel., Sys. l468 (1791). 



Trichia rubiformis, Pers., Disp., t. i. f. 3, t. iv. f. 3 (1797); 

 Perk., Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 218 ; Cooke, Hdbk., n. 1177. 



Trichia rubiformis, (3 minor, Pers., Disp., 51 (1797). 



Lyco])erdon fe^-rugijieum, Hedw., t. x. f. 1-4 (1802). 



Trichia chalybea, Chev., Fl. Par., t. 9, f. 24 (1827). 



Trichia Neesiana, Corda, Ic, i. f. 288 C. (1837). 



Trichia Ayresii, B. & Br., Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 390 ; Cooke, 

 Hdbk., No. 1179. 



B, Spores with minute ivaris. 



Hemiarcyria Ellisii, Mass. (n. sp.) fig. 30. 



Sporangia /asc^c^^/a^e,/ro^n three to seven on a common tivhted or 

 wrinkled stem, or sessile, smooth, rather shiniog, dark chestnut; mass 

 of capillitium and spores dingy brownish-orange, capillitinm elastic, 

 rupturing the peridium in a circumscissile mauner near the apex and 

 carrying up the apical portion like a cap, threads 6-7 ^u, thick, rarely 

 branched, spirals thin, not prominent, rather distant, furnished with 

 numerous, short, acute spines, tips short, acute, smooth ; spores glo- 

 bose, rather coarsely luarted, 10-12 /x diameter. 



Type, Ellis, N. Amer. Fung, exs., n. 1113 ! (called Hemiarcyria 

 rubiformis (Pers.)) (Kew copy). 



a. genuina. Sporangia cylindrico-turbinate, from 3-7 on a stout, 

 twisted or wrinkled stem about equal in length to the sporangia. 



/3. sessilis. Sporangia in small clusters, sessile on a broad base. 



On wood. United States. 



Externally indistiuguishable from Hemiarcyria ridjiformis, but 

 quite distinct in the warted spores. 



Hemiarcyria stipitata, Mass. (n. sp.) fig. 32. 



Sporangia pyriform, from two to five on a common stem, or solitary, 

 pale lemon- yellow, opaque; stem elongated, equal, darJc brown or 

 hlach, longitudinally rugulose ; mass of capillitium and spores dingy 

 ochre ; capillitium dense, much branched and forming a net ivithout 

 free tips, 4-5 fx thick, spirals very open, rather distant, thin, not 

 prominent ; spores globose, minutely warted, 7-8 p. diameter. 



a. genuina. Sporangia single on an elongated stem. 



/S. fascicxdaia. Sporangia fasciculate on a common stem. 



On palm stems. Java ! 



(Type in Herb. Berk., Kew, n. 10,892a). 



